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mengyao · 2 years ago

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I’m a bit confused – I’m not arguing that HX definitely did any torturing. My initial point (in what was kind of a throwaway, not-very-well-articulated post) was purely about the kidnapping and impersonation – which, though the hows and wherefores are, as you say, quite confusing due to the general incoherence of TGCF’s timeline and backstory for reasons both intentional and non- on MXTX’s part, I’m not really sure how one can get around. Some facts that seem inarguable to me, unless I’m forgetting something major, are:

1) In order to gain access to the Heavenly Capital, He Xuan impersonated a real god named Ming Yi, who was the genuine Earth Master, and

2) by the time we get to Black Water Arc proper, the real Ming Yi is dead, and so can’t provide an account of what happened to him.

I could be wrong, but doesn’t Mu Qing not recognizing Ming Yi as the Earth Master happen when Ming Yi is in female form? I’m thinking of beefleaf’s intro in Banyue arc here – if you’re referring to another instance, my apologies. With regards to Banyue, I assumed that just meant that MQ had never seen Ming Yi’s female form before, which felt plausible to me.

I agree that events from early in the novel are very confusing in light of later information, but I’m sure that MXTX had something at least adjacent to the Black Water arc in mind as early as Banyue arc, because it’s foreshadowed in places (for example, Xie Lian observes, upon seeing them for the first time, that though people seem to be giving the Wind Master the most props of the two of them, he has a hunch that the woman in black is the more powerful of the two. This goes completely unremarked upon for about a thousand pages, so I don’t think it can be chalked up to some other detail about Ming Yi.)

Whatever the specifics, I don’t see a plausible explanation for how He Xuan could have managed to intercept Ming Yi in between his calamity and ascension and talked the real Ming Yi into just… giving up on being able to go live in heaven under his own name, be celebrated for his accomplishments, have total freedom of movement, etc, that doesn’t involve some level of coercion. Ming Yi doesn’t know He Xuan. Ming Yi doesn’t owe him shit, and was completely unrelated to all of the business with the Shis – he was just a convenient option for He Xuan’s meal ticket into the heavenly realm. Why would Ming Yi agree to go along with this of his own volition? I guess it’s possible to come up with an scenario where He Xuan offers him a satisfactory compromise by offering Ming Yi… something? in exchange for going along with all of this, and that could be a fun fanfic premise, but it involves a lot of extrapolation away from anything we’re given in the text, because I don’t see what He Xuan could have to offer Ming Yi to make this anything but a loss for MY. He Xuan isn’t needlessly violent, but he’s capable of being less than morally spotless when it’s justifiable to him – he was keeping a bunch of random madmen prisoner on BWI in pretty deplorable conditions for god knows how long so he could use them as pawns, frex (more on them later). Kidnapping and/or imprisoning (even if that was a very loose, “you can come and go in the mortal world as you please, you just can’t go to heaven/interact with heavenly officials/claim your work as that of the Earth Master and need to keep things on the DL” kind of deal, which seems like the most generous explanation I can come up with, vs. something like Ming Yi being kept on indefinite house arrest in NWM, which imo is more in line with what the novel implies) one heavenly official in order to clinch a very important part of He Xuan’s master plan doesn’t seem like a stretch, to me.

In the grand scheme of all of the violence that He Xuan could have done, it’s really not much. But individual people’s lives still matter, even people who are inconsequential to you, and your personal pain and suffering doesn’t justify harm done to them, even if the harm could be a lot worse than it is. That’s the angle that seems the most in line with the novel’s themes, which makes me inclined to lean that way even if the continuity details involved in getting there are a bit fuzzy.

Re: He Xuan thinking that Shi Qingxuan would become bitter and corrupted in some way, I’m making inferences from various lines in the Ch. 124 confrontation scene. (Bolded emphasis mine.)

“Do you know who these people [the madmen] are? […] Rotten fates. Contemptuous fortunes. Lives lower than an animal’s. Fates that can drive a man mad,” He Xuan explained.

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Although Shi Qingxuan’s original fate wasn’t good enough to ascend, it was still a life filled with peaceful luxury and leisure. The madmen, on the other hand, were racked with disease and rotten sores and had been driven to madness by adversity. It was clear that every single one of them was ensnared by an absolutely wretched, miserable fortune. If Shi Qingxuan exchanged fates with any of them, wouldn’t that mean he would fall into the same tragic state? Such fates would drive one to madness in and of themselves. He would suffer endless agony and torment from then after. […] a common mortal suffering the most wretched of fortunes–how could [he] possibly keep living?

He Xuan devised this fate-swapping bit because he sees it as comparable to what happened to him – the narrative takes pains to establish that nothing about the confrontation with the Shis is out of balance with the suffering that Shi Wudu’s actions have caused He Xuan (“If the motives behind this punishment were disregarded, then it was truly vicious.”) Though the literal fate-swap doesn’t happen (to my recollection; I’ve been rereading along with the TLs, but my memory from the first time I read it is that He Xuan just dumps a depowered and disabled Shi Qingxuan in the imperial city and leaves him to fend for himself), Shi Qingxuan is still left in a relatively abject set of circumstances from where he started out, and certainly He Xuan’s original intention upon offering him the Jigsaw trap options was for Shi Qingxuan to either become the means of He Xuan’s bloody revenge, or to experience a truly “rotten fate” equivalent to the one foisted on He Xuan instead.

…On which note, though I doubt he consciously thinks of himself in these terms, the description of a man driven mad (if we take a more fluid understanding of “madness”) by his rotten fate is reminiscent of… someone we know:

Shi Qingxuan looked up. His voice trembled. “Ming-xiong, I…”

“Shut up!” He Xuan shouted.

When Shi Qingxuan saw his near-savage expression, he shuddered and went silent. He Xuan whirled around and started pacing the hall of the Nether Water Manor, growling as he walked.

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Shi Wudu laughed. […] “Because I see you right now–so filled with rage, so filled with suffering, so filled with hate. You’re grinding your teeth so hard you’re crushing them. And yet you’re still powerless to bring your family back! You’re still nothing more than a ghost of the gutters. Be as angry as you want, they’re long gone! […]”

With the caveat that I can’t read Chinese and can’t compare with the original text (would be very interested to hear about the phrasing in the raws), the word choice in the 7S TL seems to draw a through-line between He Xuan’s madmen, He Xuan himself, and the future that is to come for Shi Qingxuan.

So I guess where this leaves me is that while He Xuan never comes right out and says “So now you, too, will become corrupted by your trauma just like me,” I don’t think it requires much editorializing from what the novel gives us. And needless to say that becoming disabled and unhoused and losing the ability to change forms and witnessing your only family member decapitated before your eyes etc all fail to sever Shi Qingxuan from his core moral convictions. The people around him might think he’s a madman for wandering around claiming to be a former god, but we know he’s not. He has friends and some form of community. He Xuan can’t say the same!

(Also, while I’ve got the book open, a source on He Xuan having specific resentment about the theft of his heavenly destiny, which is my original point re: his hypocrisy:)

Without blinking once, he stared at Shi Qingxuan and spoke each word with clear enunciation and intent.

“Your little brother, an ordinary, common mortal, obtained the ability to ascend. His endless glory was plundered from my fate; he enjoyed my divinity. And you tell me that this has nothing to do with him?”

I honestly find it so funny when people go full unironic He Xuan Did Nothing Wrong. Like fuck original ming yi am I right. That guy was probably an asshole. If only there was a plotline in this story that explores the way in which making a stranger foot the bill with their freedom/agency/life for the sake of things that feel very urgent and important to you is like. Bad

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sunflowhobi · 4 years ago

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yoongi: what are you doing

taehyung, crying real tears in front of a missing dog poster: nothing

#bts incorrect quotes #alsdfaois i just kind of imagine tae doing shit like this #taehyung incorrect quotes #taehyung #bts incorrect subs #bts incorrect chats #bts scenar #bts #bangtan scenarios #bangtan #yoongi #extra #kim taehyung #v scenarios #bwi scenarios #incorrect

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ordulotusspa · 7 years ago

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tae: -kisses his girlfriend- i love you baby

jimin: why dont you do the same to me?

#bangtan #bts scenarios #vmin #taehyung #bwi #bts chats #lol #meme #bts meme #bts txt #funny #army #jimin

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elbutter · 8 years ago

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I Give Up ( A BTS V/Taehyung Imagine) - Part 1

Summary: high school!AU where you and V are neighbhors your whole life and you grew very strong feelings for him and then you saw him with another girl and it breaks your heart.

Characters: AU! V/Taehyung x Reader

Warning(s): none

Word Count: 1350

Author’s Note: This is a sample for an imagine. But, you can request any scenarios you want except for smuts.

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Part 2 ***

You and Taehyung were neighbors your whole life. And as the both of you were growing up you grew very strong feelings for him. You couldn’t even go a day without talking or being close to him. Not even seeing him could make you cry.

Yes. You were madly in love with him. But, not so madly in love that you would only keep him to yourself.

Well anyways, it was a very normal and usual day. You were getting ready for school and you were going to be very late if you don’t hurry up eating. Not late for school, though. Late to see Taehyung going out of the doors of his house and walking with him to school.

This became your habit ever since 5th Grade. Going out at the same time of your houses, walking to school together, and then parting ways for your classes. You finished your breakfast, collected all your things and went out the door just in time for Taehyung to get out of his. You smiled at one another and started walking.

“Good Morning!!” You greeted him brightly.

“Good Morning!!” He greeted back brightly.

There it was again. The very smile that you fell for. Then, again, he doesn’t smile this bright normally in the morning. You hoped that it was because of you. You hoped.

Your walk to school was full of randim and silly conversations. Unicorns, the cat falling down the table, the fog with the derp face. And you, resisting the urge to ask him the reason why he’s smiling so brightly in the morning knowing that the reason might hurt you. Either way, you loved having these random and fun conversations with him. You were bestfriends afterall, and neighbors at that.

When you arrived at school, both of you were walking together to your lockers. Which, were beside each others ’ lockers. Unfortunately. Yes, Taehyung was a fun guy and all but he is a playboy. And everyday he would push some girl between him and his locker and have a full on make out session. It was okay with you, though. You thought that he doesn’t love them and they were just temporary flings.

Anyways, your first period was English. And you being a half-(Y/Nationality), you had pretty high grades. While getting your notebooks, you heard that familiar smash again.

“God! Taehyung! Get a room!!” You remarked and shut your locker before turning around and stopping your tears. You’ve gotten pretty good at it and it got really handy. Because, there were some days where you’d go full on Crybaby.

Halfway to your classroom, you heard someone call your name and immediately practices putting on a fake smile.

“Y/N!!!” Jimin enthusiastically called. You turned around with a fake smile plastered on your face. Jimin was your other bestfriend. The one who you talk about your problems to, your feelings, and sometimes just have fun. In a simple way, he could be your diary. And another thing is, he can read you better than Taehyung. You admit that that hurt a bit. Jimin reading you better than Taehyung does, but that’s what you do best. Enduring the pain. Jimin pouted his lips as soon as he recognized your smile.

“Was he and some girl at it again?” He asked his voice turning dark. You nodded slowly, giving him a sad smile.

“Tsk. Forget him for now. Let’s get to our class.” He said and grabbed your wrist dragging you to the classroom.

An hour later, you and Jimin's English class was over and the both of you went your separate ways to go to your lockers. After getting your things for your next class, you decided to stop by the cafeteria to buy some food. Your walk to the cafeteria was a long walk, you had to pass through some hallways, that creeps you out, before getting there.

While walking past a hall way, you heard the very familiar voice that you loved. Taehyung's. His words were a little jumbled but maybe it was because of the distance that you can't hear him well. You went a little closer in order to hear him clearer. And when you heard what he said, you wished you hadn't.

"I love you! Okay?!" Taehyung shouted.

This. This was the last straw. You finally let your tears out. Staying where you were for a few more seconds before turning your back and finding your way towards the girls' comfort room. You went in the nearest stall and started crying your eyes out for a few moments before picking your phone out from your pocket and texted Jimin.

To: Mochi Jiminnie😉 Hey, Mochi. Let's cut. Fetch me at my locker.

You stood up from your sitting position and went out of the stall. You went towards the mirror and observed your face. It was a good thing that the only make-up you wore was a waterproof eyeliner and a lipstick. Or else your face would look like cake icing.

You washed your face and retouched your eyeliner hoping that it would hide the redness and swelling of your eyes from crying. A few moments of motivating yourself later, you went out of the comfort room and straight to your locker where Jimin was being his usual mochi self again.

"Jimin-ahhh!!" You shouted his name and hugged him. And all that chuckling became sobs. Jimin was patting your back trying to make you feel better.

"Min-ah, he said it. It hurts. It hurts a lot more than I expected." You managed to say through your sobs. You kept that position for a while. You hugging Jimin and him patting your head or your back. You were so thankful that you had someone like Jimin. Why couldn't you have just fallen for him? He wasn't a play boy like Taehyung. So, the chances of you having daily torture with him was lesser.

When you finally recovered, Jimin lend you his handkerchief.

"Jimin-ah, what kind of guy still brings a hanky with him?" You asked him lightly chuckling. He 'thought' of it for a while and smiled.

"An awesome one." He answered and winked. You laughed a little at his answer.

"So where'd you wanna go?" He questioned. You thought of it for a little while and suddenly remembered your last few days of strawberry craving.

"Anywhere where strawberries can be digested." You answered.

As soon as you and Jimin were ready to leave, you had already put your things to your locker, Taehyung ws staring at both you and Jimin with his bewildered face. You stared back at him questionably.

"Wut?" You announced. That seemed to snap him out of his trance.

"Where are you two going?"

Oh no, he was getting all older-brothery again. You hated it when he acts like this. And you're hating it more now. How dare he interrogate you when you were with another guy?! You never even once thought of doing something like this to him when you see him with another fling!

Your faced darkened before glaring at him.

"Why do you care?" You sassed. "Ugh, whatever. Min-ah, let's go." And you grabbed Jimin's hand before dragging him out of the school doors.

"Yah! Y/N-yah!!" You heard Taehyung shout before going out completely.

"Where's your car?" You asked Jimin.

"It's over there by the fence." He directed. "Why don't you stay here for a while and I'll just go get my car and pick you up here."

"Yeah, sure. But hurry. He might come here. He's getting all oppa-mode." You stated and he jogged to his car.

You grabbed your earphones from your sling bag and connected it to your phone. Ailee's 'I'll Show You' started playing.

Just the song I need. You thought.

And someone suddenly grabbed your wrist from the back and turned you around.

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End of Part 1

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monoguk · 7 years ago

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hippogriffs

You’ve always questioned why you had been sorted into the dauntless house of Gryffindor, even more so when you meet a boy from another house who is braver than you’ll ever be during your care of magical creatures class.

FEATURING - kim taehyung CATEGORY - romance WORD COUNT- 7000+

Those brave at heart, set apart by their daring nerves and chivalry, living in the highest tower in the castle because they are fearless by birth, with adventure calling for them, and they willingly face them with determined goals and pumping adrenaline. Vying for the top, but does so through a clean fight.

Whoever possesses any of these traits, the Sorting Hat immediately announces the House proudly. Apparently, you were one of them.

“Gryffindor!” Your eyes widened as you slowly step down the stool and ears become deafened by the loud cheers from a mahogany table filled with students wearing robes the colors of maroon and yellow. Everyone cheered and celebrated, welcoming the pack of freshmen sorted and divided to the 4 Houses that built up Hogwarts.

However, you’ve never really considered yourself brave; always doubted why you were sorted into such a daring house. Every night, you swallowed a whimper down your throat, eyes closed tightly at the sight the window beside your four-poster bed beheld. Every time, you peeked a view of the world outside the glass, you’d bite back a cry. How were you even a Gryffindor when you were so afraid of heights?

Still, you were very much surprised you’ve survived the first two years of schooling at Hogwarts. Sometimes, you still weren’t used to the Ghost of Sir Nicholas living up to his nickname of Nearly Headless-Nick by nonchalantly pulling out his head from his neck. Sometimes, you cried yourself to sleep at the thought of being so high up the ground. It was a wonder that you even managed to find loyal friends despite your fear of strangers. Nonetheless, your survival wouldn’t have been made possible if it weren’t for the dedicated studying you have shown for the past two years. Secretly, you thought of these habit as a sort of distraction for the fears creeping up your spine.

Starting up a new school year, your parents allowed you to go to Diagon Alley by yourself to shop for your school requirements. At first, you were scared at the prospect of travelling alone, but minutes later you receive an owl letter from one of your friends informing you of their arrival alone in the lively alley and inviting you to join them. Because of them, you were had not been fearful that day.

At the end of your enjoyable day out with friends while shopping for requirements, you eventually eyed the letters from Hogwarts and warily checked your new schedule. Then, your eyes darted down to the peculiar tied-up book under your medium stack of new subject books. You would have sworn the book was snarling at you, but before further fear ate up at you, you had shoved thoughts away and began to pack your things for another academic year at Hogwarts.

As expected, you saw familiar subjects occupy spaces in your timetable, while two other mandatory subjects fill up the once-empty slots. You’ve decided that you’d be taking up the Care of Magical Creatures and Arithmacy as your electives for this year.

You’ve thought that your subjects decision was a great one. Apparently, you thought wrong.

You wish you would have taken up Divination instead, but it had the same time schedule as Arithmacy - a subject you particularly liked despite it being the first week of classes.

You thought you should have taken other elective subjects, because you realized you absolutely hated Care of Magical Creatures class.

To clear things up, you were particularly fond with pets as you had your own dog, your sister’s pet tabby cat, your family’s snow owl, and your own brown owl companion you brought to Hogwarts.

You, during the end of your second year, had taken up the elective for magical creatures without actually expecting the peculiarity of the subject. Of course, it was your fault for expecting that your humongous professor would be teaching and showing you about unicorns or pegasus or tamed seahorses and the like of adorable creatures.

“Okay class, today I will be showing you a hippogriff. Did anybody read in advance about this creature?”

You looked around, satisfied that it wasn’t just you who weren’t able to open up the book. Luckily, your parents were around when you decided to check the specific book and apparently it was literally monstrous as it tried to bite at you. As students your year murmured around, soft thuds were heard from the distance until your teacher appeared with a humongous creature in a leash.

You would have sworn your soul left your body, rejoining the ghosts haunting Hogwarts’s castle, and you were thankful you weren’t the only third year scared out of their wits.

The creature had a peculiar body structure: the lower half that of a horse with his hind hooves and coarse-looking tail, while its upper body resembled an eagle with the two front feet that of deadly talons and the sides containing large majestic wings. It’s eyes were like any other animal’s, except it had this menacing stare that gave off a intimidating vibe to anyone who crosses its path. Its bucked beak opened up, releasing a spine-chilling screech, which apparently meant it wanted food (and, obviously the teacher fed it raw ferret meat).

“In this lesson, we will not discuss about physical characteristics of a Hippogriff as I believe you have perfectly functioning eyes and a very descriptive book. No, we will firstly discuss about proper etiquette around a hippogriff before caring for them. It is crucial to know that hippogriffs are proud creatures, and will not tolerate arrogant people approaching it. You third years must know that there had been past cases where students got injured because of improper approach.”

Students around you murmured, but you focused on not fainting whenever the hippogriff took small steps closer. The teacher asked the class if anyone knew how to get closer to a hippogriff without inflicting injuries. You would have aimed to answer first for the House points, but your fear had let you get beaten by a Ravenclaw boy.

“You have to show humbleness when approaching it. Slow steps and a deep bow is the safest way. Then, you wait until it comes to you willingly and calmly.”

When said like that, it seemed easy enough. You would have compared it to a stray cat, waiting for it to approach you instead of abruptly lunging for it and eventually causing cat scratches. However, how would you even dare visualize a dainty small cat as a large half-horse, half-eagle, carnivore creature?

“Five points to Ravenclaw. Now, it would be easier to teach you how to approach it through a demonstration. So, I would like a volunteer from the class. Come on, don’t be shy.”

It wasn’t that anybody was shy. It was obvious more than half of the class was mortified of getting closer the prideful creature. Even the arrogant Slytherins slithered at the back of the class to avoid being called. The Hufflepuffs were unabashed when they stepped back while the Ravenclaws buried their books deeper the scary monster book. Meanwhile, the Gryffindors were having second thoughts in taking up the daring challenge while you were there hiding your petrification.

There was a moment of awkward silence, your fellow third year classmates just murmuring among themselves and pointing at whoever to get the demonstration over with.

Seeing the inactiveness of the students, the teacher was about to randomly call a student’s name when one brave soul raised their hand.

“I’ll take the risk.” His voice - booming, low, and suave - rang deafeningly along the silence of the class outdoor. His eyes - was that a pair of silver contact lenses you see? - were wide, fearful but daring. His robes - stiff yet disheveled at the same time - were of a color you were not expecting. For this boy was the Ravenclaw who recited earlier.

You remembered being classmates with him since first year, and recalled that his name was Kim Taehyung. You knew little about him except that he had the deepest voice among your peers and that he had the weirdest personalities. Apparently, you knew something new about him: he was braver than you’ll ever be.

“Oh, wonderful. Step up a bit, Mr. Kim, but not too much.”

Taehyung stepped up, small strides that of confidence that beat your most confident strut. Everyone watched, probably noticing how his eyes stared blankly at the curios creature and how his lips pursed into a thin line before his tongue darted out to wet the pink flesh.

Tentatively, his upper lithe body bent forward to a bow while he eyed the hippogriff’s reaction with caution. The teacher was brandishing a wand and a dead ferret, ready to take over the situation on one side if ever things went out of hand unexpectedly.

But, judging by the third year Ravenclaw wizard bowing so low, it seemed that things would be going smoothly.

With batted breaths, you watched in fear and amazement as the hippogriff bowed back. The whole class let out a huge sigh of relief, while the boy upfront looked back at his peers to flash them a wide smile; one that instantly calmed your tense nerves.

“Very good, now why don’t you try and touch it’s fur, Taehyung?” The teacher tossed the dead ferret which was probably a good-boy treat for the creature.

Letting out a huge breath, Taehyung bit his lips as his feet slowly lead him closer the calm creature with his hand cautiously outstretched. An inch away from touching it’s beak, Taehyung stopped at the teacher’s command while everyone watched in awe as the creature willingly tilted its head towards Taehyung’s welcoming palm.

You heard a few girls behind you gush about the sight in front, and you would have joined them - because Taehyung was looking softly into the hippogriff’s eyes with such affection that beat that of a lovey-dovey couple - but what happened next had your heart bursting out in fear for the humongous teacher had effortlessly carried Kim Taehyung up on the hippogriff’s back.

Gasps erupted among you, noticing the surprise in the brave volunteer’s face before it was replaced with determined excitement. Then, with a soft warning, the teacher slapped the hippogriff, coaxing the creature to spread it’s glorious wings before it propelled graciously into the air.

Taehyung’s excited shouts and amused chuckles reached your ears although all of you were looking up the sky to look for the hippogriff with a Ravenclaw boy riding it. Agonizing minutes later, a gush of wind surrounded your class and in a flash the hippogriff was back on the ground with a bright-smiling Taehyung still perched on its back.

Your classmates cheered from afar as Kim Taehyung unmounted the seemingly-happy creature, but that was the last thing you saw before black consumed your vision with the thought of I’m probably going to ride that thing too, oh great looping in your thudding mind.

You came to next with the warm rays of afternoon sun kissing your skin. Your eyes opened, blurry figures of red and mustard blocking your vision of what you assumed to be the familiar cream ceiling of the Hospital wing.

When your vision came to, your close Gryffindor witch acquaintances had blocked the rest of your vision, their worried questions dizzying you further with you just having woken up. “Wait, give me a moment to breath.”

Thankfully they did, quietly supporting you to sit up on the rickety bed.

“What happened?” One of them asked with her two hands holding onto yours tightly.

“I-”

“She fainted during Care of Magical Creatures. But, I don’t blame her, that Hippogriff was intimidating.”

You never recalled having a voice as deep as a male’s until you realized you weren’t even the one who spoke. You and your friends looked back and tilted your head to the side respectively to look at the boy who had spoken. To your surprise - though you should have seen it coming by the timbre of the voice alone -, there stood a particular Ravenclaw boy with his uniform loosened and his gray contacts removed to give way to his natural umber eyes leaning up against the footboard of the bed across the one you were occupying.

“Taehyung?”

From the corner of your eyes, as you remained staring at the boy out of respect, you saw your friends gazing at each other; brains formulating presumptions that you were sure you were going to have a hard time explaining to them.

“Hey,” he greeted, bouncing away from the metal board before taking a few steps closer to where you were. “Professor needed someone from the class to check your condition, and I, er, volunteered.”

Kim Taehyung was notorious for always being up to the challenge; always volunteering whenever needed as long as he was sure he wasn’t breaking rules or endangering his life. However, despite this known fact, you were still surprised he’d volunteer at such a laid-back errand.

“Uhm, thanks, I guess.” You mumbled, suddenly flustered with the amount of dialogue you were unexpectedly sharing with Taehyung.

The giggles heard from your close friends worsened your shyness, expecting that they were going to come up with some excuse (made-up or true but awfully exaggerated) just to leave you and Taehyung alone. You hoped your assumptions were wrong, but what you thought were what your friends exactly did. They left simultaneously, spewing up excuses like studying for an Astronomy recitation or going to the bathroom or stalking their headboy prefect crushes or hanging out with their boyfriends, until you were left alone with the Ravenclaw boy in the empty Hospital wing.

“Uhm,” you swiveled your head back after the last friend left through the door though your flushing face didn’t dare look up to meet his. “I’ll be alright now. You can, uhm, go.”

“I waited for three hours, and you just shoo me away? I never pegged you as a rude person.” You knew he was only kidding, with his amused grin and breathy chuckle, but you, nonetheless, stumbled with your apology that eventually caused him to come nearer and chuckle longer.

“Can’t you take a - what do muggles call it? - ah! a joke?” Taehyung asked, now sitting on the side of your bed while you scooted subtly to give enough space between the both of you.

“Uhm, sorry, I’m not very good with new acquaintances.” You sheepishly admitted, secretly hinting of your fear of strangers. What were you two anyway? Mere acquaintances or just strangers?

Taehyung looked off in the distance, a look of understanding as he nodded, “Well, I’m guessing you’re not really good with pets too?”

“No, uhm, I actually love pets. Just not, er, big giant creatures.” You mumbled out the last parts, now feeling a little bit brave with stealing brief glances towards the boy. From time to time, you met his gaze but you were thankful he noticed and didn’t comment on your anxiousness.

“I see.” Taehyung comments softly, eyes looking off into the world outside the ceiling-to-floor windows of the room. You had noticed the orange rays dimming into darkness gradually as the shadows moved across the floor in accommodation with the setting sun’s orientation. The silence that ensued were neither natural nor awkward, with just the rustling of your blankets as you fidgeted with it breaking through the soundlessness.

When Taehyung spoke again, the sun was on the edge of disappearing from the horizon and staying in this hemisphere of the world. The lamps in the Hospital wing has automatically yet gradually lit up, the flames flickering cautiously until it was safe enough to dance hazardously in its confines. “I’m scared of cats and kittens, actually, if that makes you feel better for fainting because of the Hippogriff.”

You watched as his head tilted to face you, watched as his widened eyes met yours with sheepish innocence. It was when Taehyung’s lips quirked up did you realize you were gaping at him.

“You? Afraid of…cats?” It had been an unexpected surprise. Who would have thought that this daring Ravenclaw third year wizard would be petrified of a tiny kitten?

“Yeah, explains why I try to stay out of trouble, actually. Trouble means Mr. Filch, and Mr. Filch means Mrs. Norris.”

Unexpectedly, you giggled not to make fun of him but just as a reaction to such a random and unexpected fact about Kim Taehyung. I guess, you thought, Taehyung really is as random as I hear people say he is.

Eventually, Taehyung giggled with you; your differently-pitched laughter echoing along the empty room. The air about you two became warmer despite knowing that evenings at Hogwarts were mostly chilly.

When you’ve both calmed down, it was Taehyung who spoke again. “You know, you’re gonna have to ride the Hippogriff sooner or later. I sense that our Care of Magical Creatures Professor would be a practical test type.”

“You don’t say?” You bravely says in a sarcastic tone, and you u consciously went back to your timid self through a sigh, “I might as well get a failing mark for this elective, and maybe get wounded along the way. I should have taken some other Elective instead.”

“Hey,” you looked up, nervously noticing how his fingers were brushing along the side of your knee caps as his hand was laying near your blanketed legs. “I’m not letting a classmate fail if I can help them. You’re actually a very smart classmate, so I know this subject wouldn’t have been difficult if you only had a little bit of courage.”

“But, that’s the problem. Sometimes, I even wonder why I’m a Gryffindor.”

“Well, courage won’t come to you if you don’t face your fears. What do you say? Can I lend you a hand?”

Apparently, you weren’t as smart and witty as people pose you to be. But then again, how could you outsmart a Ravenclaw with obvious fake excuses?

“I, uhm, I was expecting a letter from my parents. Hansung would want a treat after flying all those miles away.” You reasoned, your footsteps subtly trying to pin yourself to one spot. But, the ground was too slippery and Taehyung was too strong as he was intelligent.

“That’s the sixtieth excuse you’ve said, you’re not backing out of our deal, right?”

In your defense, you had no choice as you had to pass a subject to sate your grade-conscious self. But the terms did not state about sneaking out past curfew to go to the hippogriff’s den without a professor’s consent.

The deal was - was it even a deal? - that Kim Taehyung would teach you how to approach the creatures introduced in the Care of Magical Creatures subject, starting with this intimidating hippogriff. As repayment, you had to get high grades to ease his helpful nature.

“This is mental, seriously, Taehyung. Why would you chose extra lessons at such an ungodly hour? Nonetheless it’s gonna cost us a lot of points take from our houses.”

“Live a little,” he chuckled, also noticing how you scurried behind him so as not to lose sight of him in the darkness as his strides widened. “Besides, if you said you were scared of everything, wouldn’t it, like, kill, uhm, four birds with one stone?”

“Four?” You squeaked as your forehead bumped into Taehyung’s back in hurry to catch up with him.

“Heights, Magical and Humongous creatures like Buckbeak the Hippogriff (you couldn’t understand why the creature even had a name and sooner you wondered when had your teacher ever mentioned it’s name then you figured it was after you passed out during class), Darkness, and Fear of Getting Caught.” Taehyung replied, slowing down until he was behind you and had a hand clamped on your shoulder to guide you to the stables where the hippogriff was at - though you wonder how this Ravenclaw boy even knew where the creature’s stable was - and to reassure you that you had a companion.

You guessed he had a point just as the same time you slightly calmed down from your anxiousness with the subtle physical contact ensued between the two of you.

A familiar foul smell invaded your nostrils, notifying your senses that Buckbeak was near. Though your steps lightened up just a few moments ago, it became heavy once again with fear and apprehension running down your spine as well as your whole body.

Noticing the regaining stiffness in your muscles and stance, Taehyung bravely walked beside you so that he had his arm around your nervous shoulders. He expected the reflexive flinch you made as response to his friendly-intimate action, but one soothing caress of his hand only at the joint connector your shoulder and your arm had slightly calmed you down. “Hey, it’s alright. We’ll be okay. Buckbeak’s warmed up to me, and I’m pretty sure he’s gonna comply to you what with your fear feeding his ego.”

“How are you even sure it’s a he? For all we know, Buckbeak might be a name of a she.” You retorted shakily, but the slight snarly comment had caused a chuckle to bubble from Taehyung’s lips which you eventually copied.

“Okay,” he stopped randomly, and so did you. His hand slide from your shoulder until you noticed he was moving away. In your panic, you reached out for him only to accidentaly and unconsciously grasp tightly at his hands as some of your fingers tangled with uncomplimentary ones of his. “I’m just going to get Bucky. Here, take my wand. Lumos.”

With two wands held by either hand, you nervously stood stiff in the same spot. Your eyes watched as Taehyung went further, stopping only until he was but a spec in your vision. Then you heard the hippogriff’s familiar sound, followed by his - its - loud thudding footsteps while Taehyung’s illuminated wand tip gave enough light to recognize Taehyung approaching you with him holding and chaffing softly at Buckbeak’s leash while the tamed creature followed.

Taehyung stopped a few feet. You assumed you and Buckbeak had the same distance between you two as when the Raveclaw boy had first approached the intimidating creature.

Taehyung tossed one dead ferret up in the air while the hippogriff flawlessly caught it straight in its mouth. He gave it one last pat before approaching a frozen you. Upon reaching your side, he watched as your head tilted to face him with your face paler than Rowena Ravenclaw’s ghost complexion. He then tossed you an encouraging and apathetic smile before gently taking yours and his wands. “You just have to do exactly as I did. We’ll go slowly. You bow. Wait until he bows. Approach him slowly. Wait until he closes the distance. Caress it fur or feathers or skin. Then fly. Sound good?”

“No.” You gulped, giving out deep sighs and exhales. “But, I have no choice, do I?”

Taehyung shook his head as a silent reply before stepping back to illuminate the rest of the ground you and Buckbeak were occupying. “Now, that’s the spirit, Gryffindor lass.”

You took in a couple more breathing exercises, feeling your dinner of gravy pork steak and buttered mashed potatoes going up your throat but you swallowed it in and began to bend your upper body.

Shakily, you subtly lift your head up to see if the hippogriff had reciprocated your act of humility and you waited until the creature did bow it’s head down towards you. It’s right talon was bent back while other was bent forward, almost as if it was a human bent on one knee.

You gasped, slowly mirroring the way the hippogriff stood up straight once again. There had been a moment of silence until you noticed the light flicker and suddenly you were heaving loud exhales of relief while quiet chuckles escaped in between. With one hand clutching your pounding chest, you turned to face the Ravenclaw boy just as he had during lessons, with your mouth upturned in the widest smile you could ever conjure. With the darkness surrounding the two of you, you could not decipher the awestruck expression in his blank face, because suddenly your ecstatic expression was brighter than the patronus he conjured after learning it from one of his seniors.

“U-uhm, that was brilliant! So, er, next step is, approaching.”

Your eyes widened, though you’ve already expected that it was bound to happen anyways, feeling your temperature drop abruptly. Sure,Taehyung’s presence was reassuring and Buckbeak’s reciprocation was relieving, but you weren’t two-hundred percent - for safety measures - sure you would have the same results as Taehyung had previously during Hippogriff lessons on Care of Magical Creatures class.

Taehyung, meanwhile, noticed your hesitance and eventually brought another smile onto his face. He took two steps closer, causing you to look up from your inner turmoil. “I won’t let Buckbeak hurt you. You have to try.”

Pursing your lips and exhaling another shaky breath, you gave a hesitant nod before facing the silent creature again. When you and Buckbeak met gazes, the hippogriff tilted its head and you admitted that looked a tad bit adorable.

Seeing this, you gained a little bit of courage to take a few steps forward. When Buckbeak remained where he was, you took a few more steps closer until you gradually reach the point where he was an arm’s length away from you.

From the corner of your eye, you saw Taehyung come closer with the same distance you ensued between you and Buckbeak. Your eyes, shaking and excited, met his with questions swirling in your irises. He gestured with his head towards Buckbeak, a silent answer to your predictable question.

You nodded once back, turning to look back at Buckbeak whose gaze wandered between you and Taehyung. With Taehyung close by and his wand still performing the Lumos charm, you marveled at the discovery that the hippogriff’s intimidating eyes were actually a large alluring painting of swirling marmalade. It looked at you with such innocence and curiosity that it naturally jinxed you to hold out your right arm.

You gnawed at your lip, shaky fingers still extended out and nervously waiting for the creature’s body to approach it. You distracted yourself by observing the contrast of its orange eyes with the snowy white-cloudy gray body; it’s body shimmered under the faint light from Taehyung’s wand, and you never expected you’d be so mesmerized by the subtle glint.

In your own reverie, you didn’t notice the hippogriff leaning closer until its head nudged your hand.

A gasp left your lips, surprised because of both fear and amazement. Surpassing your trepidation, you gushed at the live discovery that the hippogriff didn’t have a shimmering body for no reason; for its magical epidermis has alternating fur and feathers for skin. Looking closer, you compared the process to be like swaying grass on a wide meadow: its coat filled with fur as it leaned towards the front of its body, while it’s all soft feathers when it sways the opposite direction. The process was too smooth, too fast, that no one would have noticed it if they didn’t touch it or read about it.

A soft quack left Buckbeak’s mouth, enforcing a giggle out of you as you carefully caressed further down the creatures’s neck; a gesture you instinctively do when you handle your domestic pets.

Getting a little braver, you experimentally squabbled your finger as you scratched one side of the hippogriff’s long neck. To your surprise and amusement, Buckbeak went to lean his head closer to your body as its crown softly met the curve of your throat. The shifting of its skin tickled you, eliciting more giggles from you until the creature pulled away.

You smiled at it, giving it one last gentle pat, before taking your hand back to yourself.

The clearing was quiet, save for the rustle of leaves on the muddy ground and the loud but soft breathing patterns of the calm hippogriff, all until you gave out a shaky breath resembling a subtle chuckle. With pursed lips tilted to a tight-lipped smile, your eyes peeked from under your lashes to face your calming mentor who apparently was staring back at you and Buckbeak with a pride in his eyes.

“Are you ready for the last lesson?” Taehyung softly asks, handing you back your wand for it won’t agitate the creature as it had trusted you already, while closing the space between you two with a safe distance left.

Your gaze wavered, fear creeping up every fiber in your irises, but you were confident it wasn’t as bad as before you bowed down to the majestic hippogriff. Pocketing your wand and stepping a little bit away from Buckbeak, you stared at the Ravenclaw wizard with hesitant eyes before you dejectedly nodded; you had to do this if you want to finish this elective subject.

A full blown smile served as a reaction to your hesitant agreeing. You figured it was almost tomorrow, with the air growing chillier and the sky a bit lighter than when you sneaked out a while ago late at night.

Kim Taehyung had been famous amongst everyone since first year, deemed as one of the few chosen attractive people in Hogwarts at such an early age. As time went on, he became known for many things: the boy who didn’t accept being in the Ravenclaw quidditch team after performing perfectly during try-outs because he said he was satisfied with just being able to catch the Golden Snitch; the boy who had this distinct clangorous laugh when in the hallways but had the most unexpected poker face during class hours; the boy who is among the brightest wizards and witches, but us a completely dung-head when around his circle of equally attractive friends; the boy who dared to take up any challenge he was confident he can do; the boy who was sorted into the house of books and knowledge and is braver than you who was sorted into the house of courage and reckless ventures. A few other notable things people gossiped about this Ravenclaw wizard was his infamous tongue, and his incredible ability to effortlessly be adorable in one second and seductive in the next.

You were yet to find out what the witches were fangirling on about, but you did completely agree upon remembering these squealing girls talking about Kim Taehyung having the brightest smile.

If it were at the time of sunrise, you would have thought Taehyung’s genuine grin was brighter than the center of the Solar System, but for now you would settle with his smile beating the moon’s motherly luster.

“Come on,” he said, pulling you out of your reverie as you saw him walk to reach Buckbeak’s side. Though you knew you were just a little bit braver than a while ago, you understood why your legs failed to move forward.

Sure, you kind-of surpassed your fear of the hippogriff and maybe a little bit of the horror in being caught by the Hogwarts professor sneaking out at night as well as fear of the dark with Taehyung’s luminous wand and the gradual appearance of morning from the horizon, but heights had been on top of your fears list and you’re not sure if you could overcome it. Not even with Taehyung looking over at you softly like right now, absolutely not (maybe just a little bit).

“Come on, I’ll be right behind you.” He held out his long limb while you stared at his envious fingers. The hippogriff spared you one glance before it kneeled down on four legs as invitation for you two to mount it easily.

You indulged in your inner turmoil, balancing your emotions in your frantic mind. In one side, you were shaking with horror just like you did whenever you were up in your dorm room. On another, you were guilty for Taehyung and for the hippogriff because they were making an effort to lessen your nervousness while you were doing nothing but do the opposite if what they wanted. On the other hand, you were exhilarated - as surprising as that sounds - because when would you even be able to ride a creature like Buckbeak with the thrill of the possibility of being caught off-grounds after-hours?

If it were any other day, you would have not been in this position. You would not have even agreed to it in the first place. And all you could think of as an excuse was that Taehyung was a Ravenclaw who knew which words to pull to convince others into his side, though you found no wring in that thought.

Instinctively, you took another small step away while keeping your gaze locked with Taehyung’s expectant ones.

He was supposed to be the logical Ravenclaw; he was supposed to be scolding you for sneaking out, for borrowing a magical creature without a professor’s consent, for asking him to ride the hippogriff with you. You were supposed to be the daring Gryffindor; you were supposed to be the one who drag him hurriedly yet stealthily along the hallways of the castle; you were supposed to be the one who had tricks up your sleeves in sneaking into another House’s dormitories; you were supposed ti be the one confident for approaching a level one hippogriff; you were supposed to ‘live a little’ and grin recklessly. But the tables were turned, and you were everything Taehyung should be.

Deep within you, a surge of courage overwhelmed you. Whispering a mantra into your objective mind: take the risk. fly over the clouds. seize the moment. live a little.

“What do you say?” Taehyung called out your name softly; an almost inaudible sound mingling with your muddled thoughts.

Maybe it was the evident hope in his voice that coaxed your body to move closer. Or maybe he had mentally conjured the imperius incantation while his mouth said your name instead. Or maybe it was just his reflective eyes, his lighted wand emphasizing the closing in of his irises, as they connected with yours. Either ways, the next thing you knew was that you were beside Taehyung again while he was mounted on the creature and you were not. You were sure he wasn’t using a curse on you, because you felt you came nearer on your own will.

His hand was still outstretched while the other caressed the feathers in Buckbeak’s wings.

All these emotions were boggling your mind, and in the end, you just blew up with your head tilted back and your lips into a tight smile.

Seeing this, Taehyung grinned wider, glad that you were making an effort in overcoming your fears. He stretched his hand further, fingertips almost touching the skin of your arm. From afar, he heard the crow of a rooster and he brightened up even more at the sight to be beheld once riding on the hippogriff.

“I must be mental.”

“I got you,” Then warmth surged your whole body, your hand being held platonically by the one and only Kim Taehyung, your back pressed against his so none of you would fall off the curve of Buckbeak’s back, your legs straddling the creature’s back, and your front hugging the hippogriff’s neck once it lifted itself off the ground.

“Merlin’s beard- whoa!” You squealed, when suddenly Buckbeak propelled off the ground and the next thing you knew you were flying through the hippogriff.

Your eyes instinctively closed tight, fingers gripping onto the hippogriff’s shifting body coat, whimpers of apprehension and excitement bubbling out of your throat. Your hair blew softly everywhere while your face slightly froze at the cold breeze kissing every pore. Eventually, you buried your cheek further into the hippogriff, regaining the warmth you’ve lost.

It wasn’t until you heard a series of soft chuckles and felt a rumbling vibration on your back did you dare peek an eye open. It didn’t take long until you snapped your eyes wide open, mouth forming an ‘o’ as it emitted a strangled gasp.

There was no ground beneath you, though Buckbeak was obviously flying low. The sky was like a smudge of bluish periwinkle and gray as faint light peeked from the horizon seen in the distance. On your other side were the majestic forest known by Hogwarts as the Forbidden Forest - blurry swirly of gooey green so dark it was almost black. From below you, it was a rippling sight: colors in the gray palette swirling flowingly in a particular squiggly shape. Looking closely, you realized what was beneath you was the clear lake beside Hogwarts, reflecting your and Buckbeak’s and Taehyung’s figures despite the lack of light from the darkness of dawn.

Tentatively loosening your grip on Buckbeak’s neck, you breathlessly reached down until your hand was submerged in cool water, creating a straight ripple as you were moving with the hippogriff’s forward flight.

In your little bubble of delight, you forgot about the fact that you were riding a hippogriff; did not even notice the way Taehyung’s hand had softly and unconsciously found perfect residence on your hips. You never realized how your tight-lipped smile turned into a full-blown grin, growing wider until your teeth parted to emit soft giggles.

However, Taehyung did. He felt you bent down as you stretched your hand down, and he smiled at the faint memory of him doing the same thing when he first flew on Buckbeak. After that, everything else faltered: his breath caught in his throat, his heart skipping a lone beat, his affectionate smile fading into that of awe, his fingers twitching with the dilemma of holding tighter or letting go.

He’s noticed you just as much as you did, even before the situation you were both in. In a small class of first years, it was hard not to memorize who your classmates will be during mandatory subjects until seventh year at Hogwarts.

You were somewhere between a wallflower and an art center piece; known by a lot, though not as extravagantly as he. Your classmates knew you as this bright Gryffindor girl, who rarely talks and when you do it was almost a whisper. For Taehyung, secretly, you were more than that. He could faintly recall how surprised and fearful you were when you were sorted into Gryffindor just because you had the most distinct reaction out of all. He could not understand how someone could be so afraid of being into a house almost everybody wants to be sorted in. He was one of them, begged to the Sorting Hat for it, but in the end, he was placed in Ravenclaw.

Not that he was complaining, he loved his house nonetheless. It’s just that something about being in the house of Gryffindor brought a sense of satisfaction with his compulsiveness for adventure.

That aside, classes were always enjoyable to him; or rather, sneaking trouble in during classes alongside his variety of friends were. He often gets in trouble as much as he escapes punishment. Besides, he and his friends knew when it was time to get serious with their studies.

But, most of the time, he was among the mood makers, bringing cheery grins upon their classmates faces. Taehyung could say you were no exception, because he notices the prevented large grin and suspects that when you cover your mouth it’s emitting these soft giggles only your Gryffindor friends had the privilege to hear.

Tonight was just extraordinary and overwhelming, for the both of you; because you’d never thought the terrifying hippogriff was just as gentle as a pygmy puff and he’d never thought he’d be one of the selected few who’d witness this hidden side of yours.

Taehyung’s gaze stays mesmerized at you as your head tilted back to watch the trail of disturbed water you’ve made with your fingers dipped in the lake. Seeing the huge grin still etched on your lips, the faint rays of dawn highlighting shadowing perfectly on your figure, he grins as well, bravely letting go of your waist and raising his arms up above an air with a booming 'woo-hoo!’ escaping his lips.

The noise pulls you back to reality; the warm sensation gone from your hips startled and made you fluster. You look back at Taehyung, seeming to have the time of his life with his arms up in the air and the light breeze ruffling his hair in crazy directions. Your terror comes back when Buckbeak flies a bit higher and when you realized that the Ravenclaw wizard was no longer supporting you upright.

“Taehyung! What are you doing?”

“Taking a risk! Come on, try it! It’s amazing!” Taehyung hoots again, and Buckbeak takes it as a sign to raise higher from the surface.

You whimpered, realizing that the impending sunrise was illuminating the scenery before you. And no matter how breathtaking it was at that moment, all you could think about was “BLOODY HELL, BUCKBEAK’S FLYING HIGHER, STOP IT!”

You were shrieking at that point, urging the hippogriff to reach at least two feet off the lake’s surface. Taehyung’s chuckles were no longer helping you to calm down, and why the hell was he even laughing at your own misery?

“I think Bucky here wants you to be a bit braver. Please? Before he goes back to the stables and before we go back to Professor Bin’s class?”

You weren’t sure how he managed to stop your screams; how he was crumbling your resolve to dust particles; how your chest was actually enjoying the obvious pounding and hammering of your heart, the thrill of all of this.

You calculated that Buckbeak was about four feet higher now and was accelerating its flying speed. Taehyung’s excited laughter rang in your ears, despite the loud brush of air ceasing your sense of hearing. The pressure of the wind caused you to squint your eyes, with your legs feeling the joints of the hippogriff’s wings move. Your hand held tighter, loosened a little bit, before gripping tighter again.

Then, the creature set an angle to the direction of its course, and the suddenly tilt had you leaning away from the hippogriff’s neck. You briefly remembered Taehyung, but when you looked back he was still laughing manically.

Biting your lip, you guessed there was no harm in trying, seeing that Taehyung was still intact in Buckbeak’s back and that you’ve already done so much daring things for the past few hours so what harm would one more do?

Tentatively, you raised your arms until it was perpendicular to your head. It surprised you when you leaned back, causing a sense if falling to pass through you. Your fear was short lived when your back met a sturdy body, knowing that it would be no one else but Taehyung.

When you looked back, his arms were raised like your shaking arms were. The pressure of the atmosphere as Buckbeak went higher tightened your chest, but you believe your breathlessness was because of the close proximity between you and this attractive Ravenclaw boy and because of his glimmering grin, so boyish and so daring.

His eyes were random swirls of chocolate, now that the sun was peeking its edges into the horizon and that Taehyung wasn’t wearing any contact lenses. But, no, you weren’t mesmerized, drowning in the valley of each strand in his irises. Rather, you felt something akin to how you would soften when your cat would brush their body all over your feet, or when your dog would slip in under your arm just to have any form of physical contact with you, or when Buckbeak tilted its head to the side to cutely urge you to not be afraid of him - her, it, whatever.

Your chest tightened and your breath stuttered while your hair flew haphazardly into the air, until everything came at a standstill and all you could see were clouds, reflecting hues of blush pink and arctic blue and peach.

There was a moment of serene silence, just admiring the raw beauty of the sky at its first bloom in the morning. The flap of the hippogriff’s wings calmed you down, subtly lulling you to sleep and remind you that you can’t sleep a wink a few hours ago, but you thought it was all worth it.

Suddenly, you gasped, feeling warmth penetrate through the thick material of your sweater and a sturdy chin nestling its place safely on the curve near the joint connecting your shoulder and your arm. You didn’t dare look to the side, afraid of the sensations to fill you up with an up-close view of thus developing boy. You blamed all of these with the uncontrollable and mandatory hormones overflow as you gulped down your nervousness and remained quiet.

“Pop quiz: how to sneak in Hogwarts, without getting in detention, in broad daylight?”

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BTS starring as the centre of your world - when you have a crush them Pt. 2

Taehyung: 안녕하새요 처는 뷔 임니다 (Hello, my name is Bwi)

You: Hi!

Taehyung: Are you going to prom?

You: Of course!

[is he going to ask me?]

Taehyung: Can you go with my friend Hobi? His date cancelled on him, and you're the only girl in our class without a date.

You: Sure.

[heartbroken.]

- after prom -

Taehyung: Wait. I heard Minah said that you had a crush on me?

You: What?

Oh, um, yeah.

Taehyung: Oh my god, Y/N.

I'm so sorry.

Really.

I'll buy you lunch one day, okay?

You: Yeah, okay.

[nervous]

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Automotive Suspension System Market Growth, low commercial vehicle and heavy commercial vehicles Insights, Forecast Report 2027

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Automotive Suspension Market volume analysis & strategies insight 2021

The latest report published by Profshare Market Research projects that Automotive Suspension Market is expected to show impressive CAGR of 4.1 % between 2019-27. The study covers detail market analysis, growth and forecast of the Automotive Suspension Market. The report includes market analysis on global as well country specific level. Historical data analysis from 2015 to 2019 is very important to forecast market for 2019 to 2027.

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Coil Spring

Leaf Spring

Air Spring

Shock Absorber

Control Arm

Rubber Bushing

Link Stabilizer/Sway Bar

Ball Joint

Strut

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Passenger Vehicle

Light Commercial Vehicle

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Tenneco

Magneti Marelli

Wabco Vehicle

Mando Corp

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NHK Spring

Rassini

Sogefi

KYB

Multimatic

TrelleborgVibracoustic

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ordulotusspa · 7 years ago

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me: *is admiring taehyung*

me: *sighs out of love* my life sucks

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monoguk · 8 years ago

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lost in foreign land

He showed his phone, asking through his spontaneous gestures and broken English if this was the bus they should board to get to their common destination.

FEATURING - kim taehyung CATEGORY - humor . romance WORD COUNT - 5000+

You really shouldn't have listened to your best friend.

She had always been a decent-but-mostly-crazy woman. She had always given you crazy ideas, while you would always decline them because both of you knew you couldn't do what she had suggested.

"You should totally go on a trip abroad! I mean, look at how stressed you are." She suggested one day. Her words actually halted your retort and eventually you dumbly replied with a "That's actually not a bad idea."

You work at a construction firm as an "engineer". In reality, all you were ever given as a task was to organize files and review the contractual blueprints for a proposed construction. It was dizzying, a lot more than all the major courses you've taken up to complete your bachelor's degree in engineering, but hey, at least you're an "engineer". You would positively, at the end of every tiring day, assure yourself that you will eventually gain your preferred position someday.

That aside, as with all the other professions out there, your work had been tiring you out. It was really nice to know that the company you worked in gave special holiday breaks. It was the most fortunate that it was finally the Christmas season.

With your friend's suggestion in mind, you bought online two-way tickets for yourself to a country on the other side of the world, all the way to Europe. On the day of your departure, your friend confessed that she had wanted to get you away from your shared pent house because she had wanted to spend an undisturbed Christmas break with her boyfriend (and, if you must know, his name is Min Yoongi). Having no chance to retort and scold and tease, because your plane was boarding passengers, you simply rolled your eyes and told your friend to take care of herself. She wished you luck before you were walking down the passageway to the plane entrance.

Your first day in Europe was spent lazing around in your hotel room. Your meals had been eaten inside the mall connected to the hotel you were staying at while you spent the rest of the night window shopping through the shops in that same mall.

The next day, you got up pretty early, hurriedly dressing yourself up in layers of knitted sweaters and scarves. You brought out a backpack, neatly stuffing in warm packs, some highly recommended local snacks, some hygienic necessities, and a portion of your money allocated for your week-long trip. That day, you've decided to go mountain-trekking, a suggestion your beloved best friend told you before you went to Europe. "I heard your trip won't be complete if you didn't do that."

Again, you shouldn't have listened to her.

Walking leisurely out on the cold streets, you thought that your sole itinerary for that day was perfect for this kind of weather: doing a physical activity without sweating too much because the breeze up the mountain would cool it all up.

With your expensive phone in hand, your head turns from left to right, taking note of the simplest things that were absolutely breath-taking for you. Distractedly, and with a phone whose photo gallery were filled with beautifully-arranged street flowers, you reached the local bus stop. You sat between an American family of three - the parents and a cute toddler girl - and some French tourist dude busy with tapping on his phone.

A few buses passed by, none of which was 'you think' not the one you should board to reach your destination. You had wanted to ask the people around you, but they were all busy, all speaking comfortably in their mother tongue. You were pretty sure they can speak English fluently, but you knew you couldn't. An online translator would have solved the problem, if only you had been subscribed to a plan allowing you to access a bulk of internet usage anywhere around the world.

So, you nervously sat there, watching as the people you were sandwiched in between boarded different buses. As another bus passed by, you let out a huge sigh, cursing yourself for not taking up any English Language course while you were still studying. "It really would have been fucking helpful." You grumbled under your breath as another bus stopped by in front of you.

People boarded it, but your attention was drawn to a person who called out for you. Excitedly, you turned to face the person because, finally, a fellow Korean.

"Excuse me," a voice so deep, so suave, so breathless, called out. It probably wasn't you who he - judging by the obvious timbre of the voice - was calling the attention of, but really hearing someone speak a language you were familiar with was relieving.

Apparently, he really was capturing your attention. Apparently, his mere appearance was captivating enough.

You had a fair chance of meeting attractive bachelors back in Korea - a few of them were Min Yoongi and your jerk ex-boyfriend , Jeon Jungkook - so it was actually a surprise to meet another one of them out of Korea.

"Hi, I'm Kim Taehyung and I'm Korean, or were my ears just deceiving me?" He had on the most unusual tourist clothes - a white 'ripped sweater', a pair of black baggy straight-bottom sweatpants, a pair of running rubber shoes, and a dark scarf reaching up to his chin - with an unusual magenta pink hair dye. His bag was made of black leather and was of a masculine type while his phone with long spider-legs cracked screen was held on his other hand. Amidst his very unusual style, you found them all fitting his frame perfectly, especially his very unusual smile - looking like some kind of trapezoid, but mostly of a pink jellybean.

"No, uhm, I'm Korean too." You said your name, eventually standing up and offering a mandatory bow towards him.

"That's good to know. I can't - for the love of bunnies - speak English."

"Me too," you said, thinking of how you also can't speak the language.

"So, I was wondering if you know how to get here." He shoved his phone towards you. You had to squint your eyes to recognize the photo shown on his cracked phone. It took a moment to realize that you were headed that way too.

"I was actually about to ask you that too. I have no idea how to get there."

Just then, the conductor shouted something near the entrance of the bus. He was probably announcing that the bus is about to go.

Seeing that it was nearing late morning, Taehyung grabbed your wrist and trudged over the man. He showed his phone, asking through his spontaneous gestures and broken English if this was the bus they should board to get to their common destination.

The man nodded, mumbling out a few more words which you couldn't really understand.

"Ah, thank you." Taehyung said, hauling you inside the bus and directing the both of you to a seat somewhere in the middle.

"What did he say?" You asked, amazed that Taehyung knew more English than you did (and maybe a bit flustered at the thought that his hand held your wrist and that he helped you get to where you wanted to be at).

However, your fascination sizzled down slowly when Taehyung grinned sheepishly at you, saying: "I actually how no idea what he said. He nodded so, I guess that's fine, right?"

Again, you 'really' shouldn't have listened to your best friend. Moreover, you really shouldn't have listened to Kim Taehyung.

You really shouldn't have listened to Kim Taehyung.

Kim Taehyung. He was a very charming man, especially with his randomness and his relaxing smile.

Sometime during their trip, he had flinched, making you flinch as well as a chain reaction. You turn to face him to see his face contorted in horror and finger shaped into a gun pointed at the screen of his phone which showed some kind of action film while his mouth were wordlessly moving, probably repeating what the actor was saying. You raised an eyebrow at his antics the same time he turned to face you. Meeting his gaze, he immediately smiled and saluted his gun towards you, shooting you with it.

There was another time, probably 10 minutes after, that his body wiggled beside you while he whisper-shouted random Korean words. You faced him again, to see that he was jamming along at the sound that he was listening to. By noticing how his lips were mouthing words quickly, you concluded he was enjoying a rap song. You had found it cute eventually, hiding your grin as you faced away and looked at the scenery before you.

Later on, you found yourself making small talk with Taehyung. You learned how he once studied playing saxophone and that he wanted to be a 'sexy porn star' (oops, my bad, he corrected that he wanted to be a 'saxophonist'). You learned that he was on a vacation trip with his distant cousins, but he was left behind at the hotel because they couldn't wake him up. You learned that he was even more of a random person when he was talking to someone. He'd insert random out-of-current-topic statements and singing out-of-the-blue (you swore it was the most heavenly voice your ears have ever heard). No matter his unusual traits, you found yourself compelled by his presence and his smooth low-timbre vocals.

Sometime during the trip, you two managed to play a game through his cracked phone: a game of Charades. At first, you had difficulty reading what has been displayed on Taehyung's mangled phone screen, but at least you weren't mouthing out the word you were supposed to guess when it was your turn to act it out unlike him. It was fun, seeing him gesture with his whole body the things that define the word given. And, even though you already knew what you were supposed to guess even before he had acted anything out, you let him flail his arms around and eventually say the right answer even though his latest gesture was far from what it really was.

Half an hour later, you eventually felt tired, involuntarily letting your head bob whenever the vehicle swerved or glided along a bumpy road. You had been engulfed in slumber when Taehyung noticed you and laid your unstable head to his shoulder, his body adjusting so that your vertically challenged stature would be able to reach his vertically fortunate one.

You woke up an hour later with your head atop your palm whose corresponding elbow was propped on your bulky backpack. If it weren't for your unsteady sleeping habits, you would have caught yourself waking up buried on the crook of Taehyung's neck.

Upon your movement, Taehyung turned to face you, phone in his ear and mouth open as he was speaking. "Wait, I'm checking the maps... Don't worry, I'll be fine... What's that supposed to mean Namjoon?... You both are mean... Okay whatever, I'm on my way, I'll see you both later. Bye."

While he put down his phone, Taehyung shot you a tight-lipped smile, eyes darting from you to the scenery behind you. After acknowledging his silent greeting, you turned to face the window as well and all you could see was breathtaking luscious green.

Living in the center of industrialization, you had been accustomed with seeing skyscrapers and conventional centers and architectural houses every where you turned. Witnessing a road without any of those tall cemented edifices, you were left breathless gazing at the infinite pine trees lined-up beside the road as you zoomed past them. You've seen movies with scenes showing tree-filled-forests settings, but you never expected that seeing the actual thing was this... Wow.

Just as you were immersed in the beautiful scene before you, you felt something shaking beside you. You turned away from the window - spotting a bus stop nearby - only to see Taehyung nervously biting on his lips. For a moment you had been distracted - you swear reading romantic stories going into full detail how one's lips could be distracting was getting into you, but you immediately shook yourself off from your thoughts and asked, "Is everything alright?"

"Uhm," he paused, allowing the local conductor to announce something in English. With this, he began to fix his things will you followed suit in confusion. He stood up, taking your wrist with him as he dragged you towards the front of the bus as the vehicle slowed down to a stop in front of the bus shed you saw just a while ago.

With both of you out of the bus, you felt a sense of excitement surge up your whole body, having thoughts of finally getting to your destination after your turmoil with speaking English just a while ago.

It was until you noticed that you and Taehyung were surrounded with a barely empty highway road and tall luscious pine trees that you realized you were far from civilization; far from the automated gadgets you've seen on a brochure of your destination. "Taehyung, where are we?"

He smiled sheepishly, eyes darting from your worried state and the map on his phone. A red dot and a blue dot was far away from each other, and putting two things together, you finally understood your unfortunate position.

"As long as we have this map, and lots of money, we can get there in no time. Come on, follow me."

You really shouldn't have listened to Kim Taehyung.

"This is not funny anymore, Tae. Where are we?"

It was not surprising that you've asked that same question for about ten times since you abandoned your safe post in the bus shed with the adult child in lead.

After another serious photo capturing of the yellow daffodils peculiarly sprouting on the sidewalk on a winter season, you still captured the way it flowingly swayed to the harsh cold breeze from a worm's view perspective. Meanwhile, Taehyung took a picture of another angle of the scenery of the pine trees up ahead before he reopened his map application and waited for you.

The two dots on his phone was slightly getting closer to each other. But the sun, despite the gloomy season, was up high in the sky and both of them were hungry.

Taehyung, upon hearing your cute whining, turned around to face you, jellybean smile on display and immediately melting a tiny part of your irritation. "We're almost there. We'll be fine."

You trailed behind, watching closely as Taehyung lead the way with a giddy skip in his steps. You were torn in between grumbling and fangirling over such a feminine gesture done by a male. At least the breathtaking surrounding was calming you down just a little bit.

Both of you took photos of the scenery here and there. On your next stop, munching on the snacks you brought with you, Taehyung complained that his battery was running low. Panicking that his phone was your only hope to not getting lost in a foreign country surrounded by trees with no sign of civilization, you lent him your fully-charged power bank, despite your phone also running low on batteries.

"We can switch turns charging our phones." He suggested, now walking beside you when he was in the lead before.

You shook your head, bouncing to fix your heavy load. "You need it more than I do. More expensive phones has a shorter life-span than mediocre phones like mine."

"If you must know, my phone is just two models newer than yours. Besides, I've noticed you like taking photos."

You were proud of not pausing when you realized he took note of your obvious hobby, "What makes you think I don't have a camera ready in my backpack?"

"You opened your bag a while ago when you brought out snacks, didn't see any camera cases in there." He shrugged, wide lips pursing and curving up to a cheeky smile.

Well, damn him, he was right, you thought. Instead of tricking him further - or trying to, but, really, damn his unusual sensitive sense - you kept quiet and continued to walk beside him.

Your destination, according to the map app, was 40 minutes away by foot. It was great improvement when both of you had been trekking for almost three hours, excluding the breaks in between. You would have thought walking for forty more minutes wouldn't be bad - since you were trained with using the treadmill for two hours or more - but your legs were already sore and your energizing snack from before was drained again. It was bad that you both didn't have anymore snacks with you, but it was worse when your power bank was depleted of charge and Taehyung's phone was just 30%.

So much for climbing a mounting, you sighed as both of you agreed to take a rest. The sun was already setting, and this saddened you even more even though the night time was your favorite (because it was the time you'd finally be reunited with your beloved BED).

After hours of ridding the other's boredom with chatting with each other and playing games along the way, you and Taehyung had decided to just indulge in the silence your surrounding offered.

Hunched over and gazing distractedly at the setting sun, you didn't notice the way Taehyung turned to face you, cheeks flushed and eyebrows furrowed in guilt. He was raking the rightful blame, because if it weren't for his nonchalance in taking transportation (in a foreign land, mind you) and his poor English comprehension, you would probably be enjoying the feeling of accomplishment in your initial itinerary of climbing the infamous mountain. Although both of you were just a few more minutes away from where you were supposed to be, he was still guilty for what he had done. He really should stop being a carefree person.

However, he wasn't the least bit guilty for the hours he spent chatting with you - starting from your moment in the bus until your tiring walk from the shed to where you both are now. Taehyung had fun, getting to know more about the nervous Korean girl he saw in the bus shed. He was giddy, knowing that you both had a lot in common and had a lot of contrast. To top it all off, you had the same nationality as him (he could not - for the love of chicken - speak English) as well as very pretty.

Seeing your stoic face, after being used to your constantly changing - but appropriate - facial expressions, made him be compelled to speak out an apology. However, before he could voice it out, with his mouth hanging open and vocal chords ready to vibrate sound, his nearly-dead phone rang, startling the both of them.

You had a glimpse of the caller id displayed on Taehyung's screen - something that goes along the words 'pink princess Jin' - and with this your hopes of not getting lost lifted the weight off your shoulder. In you excitement, just as Taehyung said 'Hi, Seokjin,', you lunged for the phone and spoke instead.

"Hello, Ms. Pink Princess Jin, I am with a person named Kim Taehyung right now. He did not kidnap me, at all, but we kind of got lost on our way to the mountain where his cousins are. I'm not exactly sure where we are, but if it's not too much to ask, please help us get back to civilization. Thank you!"

Without waiting for a response, you quickly handed the phone back to Taehyung, who sported a dumbfounded expression.

Upon feeling your fingers poke his cheek and his earlobe as you were holding his phone against his ear, Taehyung regained his composure through a voluntary cough before taking control of his phone and the conversation behind it.

Your stomach dropped when you heard Taehyung greet 'pink princess Jin' with a Korean phrase used for older brothers, but you immediately cheered up when Taehyung's face brightened up.

"You will? I thought you wouldn't! What I see...?... I see a girl, and some rocks, and my shoes... Oh, okay sorry... Uh, the most I see are pine trees... Wait a minute,"

Taehyung pulled the phone away, tapping on it until ruffling sounds came out of it and the maps you were using earlier was displayed on his screen. "I swear, Tae, if you weren't my cousin I wouldn't be spending tons of money for using the cable car."

"I love you too, Seokjin." The smile on Taehyung's face, as his thumb and index finger pinched at his screen - allowing the map to zoom in at their location, and with this you couldn't help but mirror it. Maybe because you found Taehyung's smile to be contagious. (or maybe because you had this secret love for "boy x boy" relationships).

"So, what do you see?", 'Seokjin' asked while Taehyung was focusing on his screen.

"It says here we're 40 minutes away from there. There's a tiny road ahead of us which will lead us back to the main road. But, it's an expressway, so I don't know if you can pick us up unless you're okay with dealing with the authorities."

You heard a sigh come out of the speakers, watched as Taehyung bit back an amused chuckle. Clearly, Taehyung teased his cousin a lot, and he's enjoying the expected reaction he was getting. Weirdly enough, you were more amused than worried (because, what if Taehyung was a deranged psycho and you're stuck with him if 'Seokjin' didn't find you before 'psycho Tae' disposed of you?). "Go to the main road. Me and Namjoon will handle all the talking. We even left you a very detailed instruction on how to get here, Tae. You even brought another person to handle your recklessness."

"Uhm I'm sorry...?" Taehyung sneaked a glance your way, only to briefly witness that you were already staring expectantly at him.

You had wanted to say that you didn't mind. That Taehyung had saved you from an uneventful day, because despite not really following through your plans for that day, you at least did something that's not pigging out in the wifi-signal-abundant room with some delicious local chocolates. But before you could protest, Taehyung had his phone against his ears again, speaker off, and sheepishly-amusedly talking to 'Seokjin' on the other side.

"Geez, Jin, you don't have to rub it in my face... Yeah, I get it... Alright, we'll see you later... Seriously, I'm really sorry... Okay, bye."

As soon as the call ended, you jumped into questioning Taehyung, "What did Seokjin say?"

He had been sitting across you before the call came, and so he stood up and scooted to sit beside you, telling, "He's just being a mother hen and scolding me for getting lost and that he'll be here in a few. We should get to the main road before the sun sets, though. Come on."

Hearing him talk seriously, for once, made you smile softly. You complied to his request, ready to take your bag until Taehyung beat you to it, slinging it on his other unoccupied shoulder.

"I am capable of carrying my own bag, thank you very much."

"I am also capable of carrying two bags at the same time, thank you very much. And, you're welcome." Taehyung shoots you s sly wink, looking behind him for you to urge you in catching up with him.

The road you turned to was a lot narrower, urging the both of you to walk in a line instead of beside each other. With the sky turning darker by the minute, you resolved to taking hold of the back of Taehyung's sweater. "Getting lost alone in a an unknown forest with no food or light or cellphone battery doesn't sound appealing at all." You explained to which Taehyung replied amusedly, "I didn't need an explanation but if you're that flustered then okay."

Any minute later, you two would be completely engulfed in darkness, hidden from civilization by tall, bushy pine trees and maybe some furry nocturnal animals prowling somewhere near them. You were thankful for Taehyung's phone acting as the only source of light, mostly illuminating the owner's face as he intently looked at his screen to monitor their way out into the side of the expressway highway.

Just as you were beginning to get crept out by the approaching dark veil of the evening, you heard a trailing honking in the distance as well as saw flashes of light zoom away into a blur. Taehyung jogged faster towards it, and you struggled to keep up with his long strides.

Emerging from the other side of an arched tree branch and a couple of bushes surrounding what seemed to be a willowy tree trunk, you let out a shaky sigh of relief just as Taehyung let out a jolly "yee-haw!" while falling down on his knees with his hands up above the air.

You giggled upon the sight, watching in gratitude as Taehyung stood up contrastingly quietly while dusting off the dirt from his pants. As he was completely standing and turning around to face you, you lunged at him for a tight hug, rendering him to go off-balance for a short moment before regaining his momentum to be upright.

"I really should be mad at you, but all I am is thankful towards you, Tae. Really, thank you."

With your arms around his neck and your feet practically standing on tiptoes, he had complete access of your scarfed neck and so there is where he snuggled his flushed face. "There's nothing to thank me for. Go ahead and be mad at me, it's okay."

His hands steadily and slowly moved to reciprocate your hug as they were hanging at his sides; action prompted as he was enchanted by your warmth against his body and your sweet fruity scent infiltrating his nose, as he was enchanted by the handful of things he learned about you since you both met each other at the bus stop. And, he'd done this kind of attracted actions towards his past relationships, but it wouldn't hurt to try it with you a bit longer than he did with the others.

Just as his hands were completing a tight circle around your waist, something vibrated in his hands and it took a moment for Taehyung to realize it was his phone. He was scared, for a short time, to see if his phone had died once again, but it was just 'the pink princess' when he reluctantly pulled away from your embrace. Nonetheless, he smiled upon witnessing your flushed cheeks and grumbles-under-your-breath (something about 'hugging a Korean Adonis without thinking that you might've been a bit too obvious with your new-found attraction towards Kim Taehyung - the Adonis').

"Nice timing, Jin. We're out of the forest, by the way."

"And I'm on the other side of the road, enjoying watching your romance unfold. We'll u-turn there in a bit, just had to make sure the flustered statue being hugged by a girl was you."

"Savage, Seokjin. Bye." Although Taehyung was blushing, because he was an idiot for putting Seokjin - of all people - in speaker mode, he was weirdly comforted upon seeing you redder than he was.

"Don't worry, Seokjin's nice towards people who are not me or Namjoon. You'll be fine."

Blinking lights entered your peripheral vision, and when you tilted your head you saw a car parking right in front of both you a Taehyung. When the windows rolled down, you saw Adonis versions 2.0 and 3.0 seated shotgun. "Well, get in, if you don't want to be called by the European government."

Hurriedly, you and Taehyung went inside the back-seat. Quickly, the driver - Adonis 2.0 - stepped on the pedal and drove as if he never stopped on the side of the expressway road.

You expressed your gratitude towards the other two Adonises, right after they scolded Taehyung for not following their very detailed instructions on how to get to the mountain, while they acknowledged you with soft smiles. The one at the passenger's side introduced himself as Namjoon.

Remember how Taehyung told you Seokjin was nice?

"Hi, I'm Seokjin! You must be Taehyung's future bride."

Well, you shouldn't have listened to Kim Taehyung.

It was day three of your trip in Europe, and you woke up pretty late. You had no regrets, however, because the hours of sleep you gained was needed what with your tiring expedition from yesterday.

You asked them to drop you off at a make-up shop just a few streets away from the hotel you were checked-in, insisting that you can handle being alone for tonight and that it was your chance to buy some make-up your beloved best friend asked as a souvenir from you. Eventually, they complied to your persistence with Taehyung reluctantly letting go of your bag.

"He's just afraid that he won't be able to meet you again," Namjoon teased, but Taehyung slammed the door at them as he exited to walk you towards the entrance of the store just so he could use the remaining time you both had to be a gentleman.

"Sorry about them, they just love me so much." Taehyung shyly, yet smoothly explained. You turned around to see Seokjin and Namjoon's head poking out the windows all the while making kissy faces towards them. "I can clearly see that," you giggled upon seeing Taehyung grimace at his older cousins' antics.

Upon reaching the store, you both paused with mostly Taehyung dragging out a long parting good-bye. Not that you didn't mind seeing the flirting he was showing to you. You'd never imagined you'd have an Adonis even liking you at a foreign country.

"It was nice meeting you, Sir Kim Taehyung. Thank you for today."

"It was my pleasure. Uhm, take care, uhm, i'll see you when i see you?"

You smiled cheerfully, watching excitedly as Taehyung clumsily jogged towards the car until Seokjin's car drove off the highway.

It was when you were paying for your purchases - the things you do for your best friend - did you realize: "Stupid, I didn't get to have his number."

Meanwhile, back in Seokjin's car as he drove at a familiar road, Namjoon and the driver nearly screeched. "You didn't get her number?!"

"I forgot."

Clad in a comfortable cropped top plaid shirt and some black denim pants, you made your way to the dining room of the hotel. Along the way, you couldn't help but blush upon remembering how you ranted at your best friend the other night about meeting a clumsy knight-in-disguise like some high school teen gushing about her crush noticing her. You were cringing when your best friend teased you a little bit more about you finally having a new crush after that poor excuse of a boyfriend but you were instantly calmed down when your best friend said at the end that her idea wasn't so bad after all. "For once, I actually am agreeing with you." Before you and your best friend called it a night your line was cut by Yoongi's raspy voice going along the lines 'Can we please get back where we left off?'. You were too tired to complain about it being 'tmi', and so you just slept it off.

A bell-hopper greeted you 'Good Morning' in English upon your exit from the elevator. You nodded your head, thankful that at least you knew the most basic English. As you made your way to the grand buffet hall, the other elevators dinged as background and you couldn't help but be calmed by the harmonious rings.

Just as the waitress was guiding you to your seat, a voice called out for you in a familiar Korean accent that you couldn't help but turn around excitedly. There before you, clad in another ripped sweater of a different color with skinny pants and some topsider shoes, was the boy with the jellybean smile and Adonis-like features. "Make that table for two please, thank you" speaking in that deep broken English tone and him standing closer beside you, he was real.

"Fancy meeting you here."

Maybe it's not so bad listening to Kim Taehyung.

"Future wife."

Or maybe it is.

#belle writes #taehyung fluff #kim v scenario #bangtan bwi

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